Detroit (DTW) – Salt Lake City (SLC)
- Distance
- 2,384 km
- 1,481 mi · 1,287 nm
- Flight time
- 3 h 56 min / 3 h 20 min
- Average gate to gate: DTW → SLC / back
- Time difference
- 2 h
- CO2 per passenger
- 299 kg
- One way, economy, incl. RF (177 kg CO2 only)
- Passengers / year
- 490,693
- Aug 2025 – Jul 2026 · −0.4%
- Flights / week
- 61
- Both directions, average
- Seats filled
- 85%
- 579,714 seats a year
- Airlines nonstop
- 3
- DL, NK, OO
Traffic: U.S. DOT, Bureau of Transportation Statistics, T-100 Segment (all carriers, scheduled service), Aug 2025 – Jul 2026. Distance: WGS-84 ellipsoid. CO2: UK DESNZ 2026 factors. Sources
The way there
- Heading from DTW
- 276°
- Heading from SLC
- 77°
- Halfway point
- 42.40, -97.83
- Great-circle km
- 2,378 km (sphere, for EU261)
- In the air DTW → SLC
- 3 h 30 min
- In the air SLC → DTW
- 2 h 55 min
- Clocks
- Salt Lake City is 2 h behind Detroit
The estimate for a route without real times is 3 h 35 min; how it is worked out is on Sources.
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| Month | Passengers |
|---|---|
| Aug 2025 | 48,625 |
| Sep 2025 | 39,157 |
| Oct 2025 | 38,381 |
| Nov 2025 | 33,558 |
| Dec 2025 | 37,032 |
| Jan 2026 | 34,951 |
| Feb 2026 | 32,512 |
| Mar 2026 | 38,293 |
| Apr 2026 | 35,851 |
| May 2026 | 47,651 |
| Jun 2026 | 50,721 |
| Jul 2026 | 53,961 |
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| Month | Flights |
|---|---|
| Aug 2025 | 299 |
| Sep 2025 | 249 |
| Oct 2025 | 256 |
| Nov 2025 | 241 |
| Dec 2025 | 252 |
| Jan 2026 | 244 |
| Feb 2026 | 214 |
| Mar 2026 | 254 |
| Apr 2026 | 247 |
| May 2026 | 296 |
| Jun 2026 | 302 |
| Jul 2026 | 314 |
Airlines flying DTW–SLC nonstop
| Airline | Flights / week | Share of passengers |
|---|---|---|
| DLDelta Air Lines | 60 | 99% |
| NKSpirit Air Lines | 0.6 | 1% |
| OOSkyWest Airlines | 0.8 | 0% |
Both directions, Aug 2025 – Jul 2026. Airlines with at least one flight a month. U.S. DOT, Bureau of Transportation Statistics, T-100 Segment (all carriers, scheduled service). Sources
Aircraft on this route
- Boeing 737-900ER · 1,727 flights
- Airbus Industrie A321Neoxlr · 921 flights
- Airbus Industrie A321-200n · 422 flights
- Airbus Industrie A320-100/200 · 28 flights
- Canadair CRJ 900 · 13 flights
- Bombardier CRJ550 · 13 flights
- Boeing 757-200 · 9 flights
- Boeing 737-800 · 7 flights
Also carried: 133 tonnes of freight and 181 tonnes of mail a year (passenger and cargo flights).
Punctuality
- On time
- 84.2%
- Arrived within 15 min of schedule
- Average delay
- 10 min
- Late arrivals count, early ones as 0
- Cancelled
- 0.1%
- Flights counted
- 3,110
- Aug 2025 – Jul 2026
| Airline | On time | Average delay |
|---|---|---|
| DLDelta Air Lines | 84% | 11 min |
| NKSpirit Air Lines | 100% | 0 min |
Delay minutes by cause: airline 59% · aircraft arriving late 22% · air traffic system 17% · weather 3% · security 0%.
Both directions, Aug 2025 – Jul 2026. BTS Reporting Carrier On-Time Performance (US domestic flights of the larger US airlines). Sources
What passengers paid
- Average fare, Q1 2026
- $474
- One way, all cabins
- Average over a year
- $399
- Q2 2025 – Q1 2026
- Largest airline
- Delta Air Lines
- 84% of passengers · $516
- Lowest-fare airline
- Frontier Airlines
- 6% of passengers · $157
History, not a price to book: what the average passenger paid per one-way trip in each quarter (Q2 2025 $364 · Q3 2025 $352 · Q4 2025 $438 · Q1 2026 $474).
Fare outlook, Q1 2027: about $484, likely $419–$552
The average fare paid we expect a year after Q1 2026, the newest DOT quarter. On this route, past forecasts made this way fell inside the range 95% of the time over 21 quarters (median error 2.3%). An estimate from US DOT data: not a price you can book, not a guarantee, not advice on when to buy. How the outlook works
Cheapest quarter on this route: Q3, typically 4% below the year's average (9 years of DOT data, without 2020–21).
U.S. DOT Consumer Airfare Report, Table 6 (airline ticket sample, US domestic city pairs; each city here has this one airport). Sources
Delay compensation (EU261 / UK261)
Measured by great-circle distance: 2,378 km.
Neither EU261 nor UK261 covers this route: it neither starts nor ends in the EU, EEA, Switzerland or the UK. Other countries have their own rules (for example Canada's APPR or Brazil's ANAC rules).
Also owed for a cancellation with less than 14 days' notice or denied boarding. Not owed for extraordinary circumstances. On a connection, the distance to the final destination counts. From 23 October 2027 the EU's Regulation 2026/2202 applies; it keeps these amounts (what changes in 2027). Information, not legal advice.